The main builders of St. Petersburg have neither graves, nor offspring, nor portraits. Because they were not invented

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

It is easy to invent various hand-held granite breakers and thousand-ton lifters, paper will endure everything, but finding their portraits, graves and, especially, offspring is impossible, because it is easy to trace the reality of descendants even in our time, or at least the mention of their offspring in the literature of the 19th century.

The most important technologically super-complicated granite objects of St. Petersburg were actually built by 2 people - the Frenchman Auguste Augustovich Montferrand and the Russian Samson Sukhanov. Moreover, the latter has 2 middle names in one source - Semenovich and Ksenofontovich.

According to the official version of history, the artels of Samson Sukhanov were credited with cutting out by hand granite blocks (7 meters thick and up to 30 meters long) in huge quantities and giving them a perfect shape, and Montferrand supposedly figured out how to install these many tons of works of art forever and ever. Peter.

To prove that Sukhanov could do this, he was credited with having defeated polar bears twice in hand-to-hand combat at the age of 16 on a polar night without any weapons.

Both of these famous comrades lived quite recently, 150-200 years ago. But from both of them there were no graves, no descendants or lifetime portraits.

It is easy to invent various hand-held granite breakers and thousand-ton lifters, paper will endure everything, but it is impossible to screw offspring onto them, because it is easy to trace the reality of descendants even in our time, or at least the mention of their offspring in the literature of the 19th century.

I quote from the site "Peter's Breath"

Architect A. N. Voronikhin commissioned S. Sukhanov's artel to build a colonnade from 138 columns overlooking Nevsky Prospect, and then the inner colonnade. For the construction of the Kazan Cathedral, Samson Ksenofontovich Sukhanov was awarded a gold medal.

It's like not mentioning Korolev and Gagarin in books about space exploration. In books about the revolution, do not mention Lenin.

What better proof of the non-existence of this Samson in nature? In the books about Peter was not mentioned before, and then suddenly it burst out - appears in almost all books about Peter. After all, someone must ascribe a mysterious way of cutting down granite for all of St. Petersburg when they decided to rewrite history.

And it’s still not clear what difference it makes to him, what style is in fashion? The main thing is to be able to cut a stone. Whether in the Rococo style or in the Baroque style. He sculpted Neptune according to a drawing by I. P. Prokofiev. The style is set not by the bricklayer, but by the artist. And cutting off lumps in rocks does not depend on the fashion style at all.

If the fashion for blondes has passed, then a good photographer will not be able to photograph brunettes and he will start a streak of failures?

Well, okay, mind you, how can he be a fictional character? After all, there is probably his grave? Ibid in the same article:

So he ascended to heaven! On a chariot of fire! Harnessed to angels with polar bear faces and butterfly wings! Samson is risen! Resurrected in truth! The atheists came in the morning to pray to Samson, and the grave is empty. And only an angel in a white robe says, "Why did you come to look for the living among the dead?"

How can you not know the place of burial and the year of death? And the children don't know him either? And grandchildren? After all, he married at the age of 29, according to the official version. The name of his wife was Evdokia Pravdin. That's where the name of the newspaper Pravda came from! I did not find any mentions of Sukhanov's descendants. Although I dug up a lot of material.

The second questionable character has the same problem. He also has no data on the offspring. Quote from Wikipedia (Montferrand article):

Family[edit | edit wiki text]

The first wife is Julia Morne (nee Gokerel, Morne is her first husband's surname). The marriage was concluded in 1811 [4] and ended in divorce.

It's surprising that I didn't notice the absence of descendants for a year and a half, although I delved into Peter's riddles a lot when I wrote my big study

Let's go back to Sukhanov:

For a long time, we didn't even know what he looked like.

As established - science does not know. And that's all. Once a man with a hammer, then only Sukhanov.

Why was the Hebrew name Samson chosen for this fictional character? Because in the Bible Samson was a Jewish hero who once tore the Lion with his hands. Samson (Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן, Shimshon) is an Old Testament Judge-hero, famous for his extraordinary physical strength:

"And the Spirit of the Lord came on him, and he tore a lion; but he had nothing in his hand "(Judges 14: 6)

"Samson" - the central fountain of the palace and park ensemble Peterhof by sculptor Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky, "Samson tearing the mouth of a lion".

It was in his honor that the Russian fairytale hero was named. Biblical Samson tore a lion - the largest predator in those places, and Russian Samson - a polar bear, also the largest predator in his place (and twice):

Once I met one on one with polar bear. The northern ruler, without turning, walked directly towards Samson. But the guy did not back down either. I understood: you can't run, it will catch up anyway. He stuck his skis in the snow, because he knew that the bear would never throw himself on the skis, it would circle around them. He put the spear in front and went to the bear first. The bear stumbled upon a spear broke herand fell with all the carcass on Samson. He was not at a loss, pulled out a knife from behind the boot and stuck it in the side of the beast.

He returned to the winter quarters with a bear skin, a piece of meat and a bear mark all over his face from forehead to cheek.

In the spring of 1785, the artel returned to Arkhangelsk with walrus fat and tusks, blue fox skins, eider down, bear skins (twoof them were Sukhanov's trophies).

For those who don't know, the polar bear is the largest predator. It is twice the size of a brown bear. At the beginning of the 20th century, their weight reached 1600 kg.

A. M. Platunov, the author of the solid work "This is how Petersburg was built" (published in 1997), wrote in a footnote: "Samson - ancient greeka mythical hero who was credited with supernatural physical strength and courage. "Thus, at the behest of Platunov, Samson" migrated "into ancient Greek mythology.

A little zoological idiocy from another source:

Well, come up with such that it is the priest who does not know the biblical story about Samson. Priests not only do not read the Bible, but have never even seen it! The village doctor or shoemaker may not know, and even then it is unlikely. But not pop. Everyone knew the Bible in those days. At least the main biblical stories.

The myth-makers also took the surname Sukhanov not by chance. Sukhan is also a hero, but Russian. In "A TALK ABOUT SUKHAN" by an unknown author of the 17th century, more than 90-year-old Sukhan uprooted a young oak tree and with this oak killed the Tatar army, after which he was shot from a cannon:

In the city of Kiev you were under the headman,

Under the Grand Duke Manamaha Vladimirovich,

There was a good old hero,

He is over ninety years old

And what about the name of Montferrand? Also, there is reason to suspect falsification. His name is August Avgustovich. His greatest achievement was the installation of the Alexander Column. The lifting of the 700-ton column took place in August 1832. And the grand opening of the monument took place exactly 2 years later in August 1834. So on August 2 in the name of Montferrand and August 2 in the biography.

But, the funny thing is that another Frenchman Betancourt was a co-author of the engineering part of the Alexander Column, St. Isaac's Cathedral and other megalithic structures in St. Petersburg. And his name was also August Avgustovich.

Imagine if Vladimir Vladimirovich was called not only Putin, but also Medvedev. President Vladimir Vladimirovich and Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Medvedev.

Here is a scan of a page about him in the Brockhaus-Efron enz-dy from 1891

Electronic copy

• transformed the Tula Arms Factory,
• built a cannon foundry in Kazan,
• introduced new and improved old machines at the Aleksandrovskaya Manufactory,
• built an expedition building for the preparation of government papers (where he personally invented most of the machines),
• a huge Moscow exercise house,
• seating yard for the Nizhny Novgorod fair and various other buildings.
• According to B.'s project, the Institute of Railways was established in St. Petersburg, where he was appointed an inspector.
• Since 1816, B. held the post of chairman of the committee on urban buildings in St. Petersburg,
• and in 1819 he was entrusted with the main administration of communications. In this last position, he remained until his death, which followed on July 14, 1824.

So far, a normal biography. St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Alexander Column have nothing to do with it. But, if he is such a talented person, and even not Russian, then it is necessary to hang the construction of Isaac on him! It was not wild Russians who built such a beautiful cathedral from 120 tons of granite columns! And here is a more recent version of his biography.

On Wikipedia, the date of Bettencourt's death is 1824. And in the same article he " took an active part "in the installation of the column in 1832. And it's not just about Wikipedia. For example, check out what the great atheistic dustmen who believe in Bettencourt's afterlife have written on blogs.

Here it is described in detail with dates:

This is the "Encyclopedia of Russian History". So, his life after death was extended until 1830. In the tourist project "Go Peter" he was given another 2 years old to breathe fresh air

Unfortunately, the authors of these articles do not indicate the sources of such information. A search for the primary source on the Internet about Bettencourt's afterlife yielded nothing. This means that the authors draw these revelations from books. A couple more years will pass and he will be credited with participating in the launch of the first satellite.

But, I must admit, there are forces of evil that do not allow a person to live peacefully after death. Betancourt is not credited with actively participating, but only using his developments after his death. For example here

An indirect confirmation of the presence of a person is his descendants. Augustus allegedly had a son, Alfonso. Wikipedia:

Here are the ones on! All in the father! Dies twice 12 years apart! Such a descendant is not reliable evidence of the parent's reality. It is also alarming that he allegedly lived to the era of photographs, but his photograph could not be found, including in an article about him on Wikipedia.

Do you think August Avgustovich Betancourt is alone? Here

another who lived in parallel with the first full teska:

Here 2 biographies of the Betancourt father and son are terribly confused. It turns out that at the age of 19 he became the chief executive and honorary member. And this promotion happened in the year of the death of Bettencourt the father! In 1821 Betancourt brought to Russia his nephew, the son of his Setra. His name was also … Augustine Moteverde-Bettencourt. Monteverde - surname on the father, Betancourt - on the mother.

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Here Valery Yermykin proves that Augustine Bettencourt is one of the alternative names of Count Kleinmichel Peter Andreevich. I have no desire and time to deal with this yet.

It is interesting to note that 2 "Russians" August Avgustovich Betancourt and Montferrand did 2 things: they solemnly raised the column and solemnly opened a monument 2 years later in the month of August, too. August sits in August and drives in August.

Let's go back to the biography of Samson Sukhanov. According to information from the site "Peter's breath":

Samson Sukhanov was born in the remote village of Zavotezhitsa, Vologda province, in 1768year, in the field during the mowing, and was the son of a shepherd …

Remember this date of birth - 1768year.

Here is the second version of his biography from 1818 from a chronicler with a beautiful native Russian surname Svinin (This is not a joke!):

All art lovers know Samson in St. Petersburg SemenovichSukhanov for a very skillful stone sculptor. … his father Xenophon …

Patronymic Semenovich, and father - Xenophon. So Semenovich or Ksenofontovich? This is not information from different sources, but one author Svinin, in one text creates two fathers at once to one person. And this confusion is repeated in almost all sources. By the way, why, if not Russian, then the surname is beautiful - Montferrand, Betancourt, but as a Russian then immediately Svinin! It was as if those who invented all these people were specifically trying to humiliate the Russians. Comrade Svinin continues:

His mother, on the other hand, ate alms in the winter, and in the summer she lived with the workers, where she brought him into the world at haymaking in 1766 year

It is a pity that Svinin did not tell who she gave birth to in the haymaking - from Semyon or Xenophon? This is the second version of the biography. According to the first, he was born 2 years later. Probably in 66, he was born from Xenophon, in 68 from Semyon.

And here is the third version of Samson's biography from the bibliographic encyclopedia:

was born on June 27, 1776 in the Evskaya volost of the Vologda province, died in the 1820s.

And so, he was born first in 1766, then in 1768 and 1776. And he died in the 1820s. It would seem that 3 birthdays with a spread of 10 years is enough. But it was not there. How the devil pops it out of a snuffbox

That is, according to refineddata, already the third year of birth 1769 … We continue to read:

But we have just read that Khomutetsky discovered him. Now he is Komuzhetsky. Probably 2 typos in one word.

It is not clear where his surname Tugoy came from. He attributed two fathers to Samson Sukhanov, perhaps because he himself had 2 fathers, and one of them Tugoy?

Even Pushkin called him "the little liar"! And modern scientists consider him a great truthful person who compiled the most truthful biography of Samson Sukhanov!

Still have questions? Finally, here is Pushkin's tale about Pavel Svinin:

So, Sukhanov has no grave. How is this issue resolved by Montferrand? If there was a chulovek, then there must be his grave. Quote from here

It is possible to instruct a Catholic to build the main Orthodox shrine, but is it impossible to bury a builder in it? So why not carry Masonic symbols and pagan statues all over the Palace Square? Dressing the Orthodox Tsar Peter in Roman clothes on the main monument of St. Petersburg is normal, but is it a great Orthodox sin to bury the Catholic who built the most famous Orthodox cathedral in the same cathedral? Maybe Montferrand simply did not build it, but only painted funny pictures by order of forgers, so there is no reason to bury him in a cathedral that has nothing to do with the draftsman?

It is worth mentioning separately about Alexander the Second. He is the greatest man of all kings in my opinion. During the Russian war in the North Caucasus, the mountaineers were led by the violent and fearless Imam Shamil. Alexander II just talked to him once and Shamil changed by 100%. He became quieter than water below the grass and peacefully lived out his years in Russia.

This is not the place to delve into this story, but the power of Alexander's word is comparable to that which is attributed to Christ in the Gospels. Turning enemies into friends by the power of words, not weapons. Why did I make this lyrical digression about Alexander? So that you understand why Alexander II did not allow Montferrand to be buried in the cathedral. He, as an honest man, could not allow such blasphemy in the line of falsifiers.

Or perhaps Montferrand was credited with wanting to be buried there. For drawing pictures?

The monogram "AM" is considered precisely the initials of August Montferrand. Here is a photo of this strange grave. Dark monogram inside the hexagon:

Although it could have been Alexey Maksimovich (Gorky). Who can take a larger picture of it in Paris, send it to me. Maybe we'll see something else.

AND

It is interesting that the columns on the graves are not a sign of a buried builder. For example, there is also a column on Mozart's grave, but this does not mean that Mozart was an architect.

So, what do we have in the bottom line? The giant granite blocks were chopped off and cut to perfection by the bear-bearer Samson Ksenofontovich Sukhanov, the son of Semyon, who was born four times and died twice, and the megaliths were installed by the dead man Augustus Betancourt and the living Russian architect Montferrand, also August Avgustovich.

The most fictional moment in Sukhanov's biography was, of course, bear fights.

The bear is the largest predator on Earth. The polar bear is the largest bear. It is twice as large as brown.

Modern polar bear and man. 200 years ago, they were at least twice as large.

In Wikipedia and other sources, its strength is characterized as follows:

Standing on 4 paws, he is almost as tall at the withers as a person. Standing on its hind legs, the height is 3.5 meters, that is, 2 human heights. Running speed - 40 km / h. Modern white bears weigh up to a ton. But they have been crushed by global climate change over the past 200 years.

In the enz-di of Brockhaus and Efron, published more than 100 years ago, the weight is indicated:

1600 kg("16 quintals weighing")!

Samson Sukhanov lived another 100 years earlier. Maybe then the bears were even bigger. Quote from there:

The polar bear is very wild, angry, bloodthirsty and very strong; it moves in leaps rather quickly. B. Bear defends himself with great courage and is a dangerous opponent, especially on the ice, on which he moves boldly and confidently. They hunt B. bear with guns, but this hunt often costs the hunter's life

Therefore, the polar bear is hunted in a different way, without direct collision with it:

The natives use the following method for hunting B. bears: a sharp strip of whalebone, about 4 inches long, is rolled up in a spiral, poured over with seal fat, which is allowed to harden, and then laid as bait. When this bait gets into the stomach of a B. bear, the fat melts, the whalebone straightens and tears the stomach and other entrails, and the animal dies.

Whoever believes that Petersburg was built by people with the help of primitive hand tools, must believe in this great atheistic wisdom from the site "Peter's breath":

Samson Sukhanov was born in the remote village of Zavotezhitsa, Vologda province, in 1768year, in the field during the mowing, and was the son of a shepherd …

Remember this date of birth - 1768year.

… more than once went to animal fishing. Met once one on one with a polar bear … The northern ruler, without turning, walked directly towards Samson. But the guy did not back down either. I understood: you can't run, it will catch up anyway. I stuck my skis in the snow, because I knew that the bear will never rush onto skis, it will circle around them.

Why doesn't the bear jump on the skis? Who said? Why did the bear wait for Samson to take off his skis and put them in the snow? Did he play giveaway? How Samson was able to surround himself with an impassable palisade of just 2 skis! Mannerheim Line! The great Wall of China! I placed anti-tank hedgehogs. The bearish enemy will not pass! The tundra is great but nowhere to retreat! Looking ahead, I will say that after rereading all the books and reviewing all the documents on the history of the construction of St. Petersburg, you can find anything but one thing - what real, understandable technical way was it possible to cut giant pieces of granite by hand and cut out super-complex column shapes from them? You can find any nonsense, including protection from the evil white bear with the help of skis.

We continue to quote:

Put the spear forward and first went to the bear.

If the mountain does not go to Mohammed, then Mohammed will go to the mountain! Forward for the Motherland! For Stalin! For the official bearish version of history! For a grassroots relict bear cult! Death to the bears! Checkers bald!

Let the enemy not rock the boat

Soak everyone just like that

A Cossack will rush to the tank with a saber.

If the enemy freak

will attack our people

Ataman, lead forward!

Checkers bald!

We continue to quote:

The back end of the roach is buried in the ground, so that the bear, with its own strength, stumbles upon it. But how can you push a spear against snow or ice? Moreover, it is written that Samson WALKED with a spear on the bear, and did not rest it against something and did not stand still! The rogatina is made from a sturdy stick.

The rear end of the spear is also sharp so that it does not slip on the support. And the main thing is that he rests against something solid - a stump in this case. Plus a hunter with a gun "helps".

Can you imagine Samson holding the stick so tightly with his HANDS that it cracked from the onslaught of a polar bear, but didn't let go? The strong spear broke, which means Samson rested his feet in the snow with more force than was needed to crack a strong wooden stick for hunting a polar bear. But the snow is slippery. This is not possible in any way. But the bear on the ice is "very dexterous" as we read above. This is his native element. He is on ice like a fish in water.

He was not at a loss, pulled out a knife from behind the boot and stuck it in the side of the beast. I returned to the winter quarters with bearish mark across the face from forehead to cheek.

Any bear has a thick skin. And even more so for the white one. Plus a very thick thick coat to swim in icy water for hours. And under the skin there is a thick layer of fat, like all northern animals. So what, that stuck a knife while under the medved? Did the bear die instantly? In order for the bear to die immediately, it must be at least divided into 2 parts along the body. For example, a burst from a six-barreled drum machine gun. Better yet, in 4 parts. Otherwise, a wounded bear will calmly gnaw a person. Or just crush with your weight.

Why didn't he go on a bear hunt with a gun, because guns were already there? It's like hunting tanks with a checker, having a cannon. Let me remind you that even hunting with a gun often ends in the death of the hunter. Because not only a knife, but also a bullet cannot overwhelm a bear. Therefore, they prefer to tear it from the inside with a bait from a sharpened whalebone. You can't even take a bear outside with a gun.

I returned to the winter quarters with a bear mark across the face from forehead to cheek

A polar bear has about 10 cm claws (in the picture on the right). It's modern. And we read that 100 years ago they were twice as large. If he leaves a mark on his face …

"across the face from forehead to cheek."

Actually, there is no "whole face" between the forehead and the cheek. The forehead passes into the cheek through the eye. Maybe across the entire eye, and not across the entire face? Sukhanov would have returned without an eye.

Another quote:

The strength of this beast is truly amazing. He is able to pull out onto the ice and lift up the slope a walrus carcass weighing more than half a ton. A bearded seal, which weighs not much less than the bear itself, can be killed by a predator by crushing the victim's skull with a single crushing blow of the paw, and, if necessary, transfer its carcass in its teeth to a distance of up to a kilometer.

And Samson only left a scratch.

On the left in the photo is the paw of a brown bear. White has twice as much. Pay attention to the size of the claws. It's a pity I didn't find a photo of a polar bear's paw in front of a human.

Quote:

In the spring of 1785, the artel returned to Arkhangelsk with walrus fat and tusks, blue fox skins, eider down, bear skins (two of them were Sukhanov's trophies)

Wow! It turns out he killed not one but two polar bears in hand-to-hand combat! Pay attention to the date. Spring of 1785. And he was born in the summer of 1768! So he will be 17 years old in the summer of 1785. That is, He flunked both White Bears at the age of 16!It is a pity that mammoths had died out by that time. Otherwise, Samson Sukhanov would have felled them in batches.

This is the skin of that same bear whom Samson filled up on a polar night at the age of 16.

Here is the second version of his biography from 1818 from a chronicler with a beautiful native Russian surname Svinin (This is not a joke!):

All art lovers know Samson in St. Petersburg SemenovichSukhanov for a very skillful stone sculptor. … his father Xenophon …

Patronymic Semenovich, and father - Xenophon. This is a typical example of zoological idiocy.

So Semenovich or Ksenofontovich? And this confusion is repeated in almost all sources. By the way, why, if a non-Russian, then the surname is beautiful - Montferrand, Betancourt, but as a Russian then immediately Svinin! It was as if those who invented all these people were specifically trying to humiliate the Russians. Comrade Svinin continues:

His mother, on the other hand, ate alms in the winter, and in the summer she lived in the workers, where she brought him into the world at haymaking in 1766.

It is a pity that Svinin did not tell who she gave birth to in the haymaking - from Semyon or Xenophon? This is the second version of the biography. According to the first, he was born 2 years later. Probably in 66, he was born from Xenophon, in 68 from Semyon.

Further, we learn that these were night battles with bears on the polar night. The zoological bear idiocy competition continues:

The sun went down on October 1st, deep darkness fell …

Once Samson, walking along the mountain with one of his companions, met scary polar bear. The beast was walking right at him on its hind legs with an open mouth and a terrible roar

So that's where the bear came from! After all, he is also depicted on his hind legs and with his mouth open!

Let me remind you that the wild Russian ape-builders, who galloped in the frost on the scaffolding, also worked in the dark of the polar night, for which they held the ring of the lantern in their teeth.

Mochny Samson, abandoned by his comrade, crosses himself, puts his skis on the snow *), takes a spear in his hands, strives to attack his enemy and fortunately gives him a deep wound in his side: see the flowing blood, the bear is attached to flight**) and in the mind of the winner falls from exhaustion.

It turns out that the bear did not lean on Samson, but, on the contrary, ran away with fright! So what did the bear do: ran away cowardly or courageously piled on? Those who wrote this idiocy did not take into account the main thing. The bear never runs away when injured. It is on this principle that the method of hunting a bear with the help of a spear is based. The bear stumbles upon her and, by his own strength, continues to sit on her despite the pain. Samson's bears are kind of shy. They are afraid to bypass the skis stuck in the snow, or they are afraid of injuries from a knife. These are some anti-medvedy or false medvedy.

Samson, with the help of his cowardly comrade, completes the victory with a few blows, removes his skin and triumphantly returns to his home.

I can imagine what this picture is. Attack a wounded polar bear. The wounded man is not dead. He is even more dangerous than not wounded. And these 2 comrades boldly drove up to him.

In January 1785 it happened to him, again alone, to attack this beast, and then he, not with cowardice, but with good spirits, walked right at him and won.

It turns out that the first bear was running away, and the second was piled on. So are bears shy or brave?

And then he attacked the dinosaur and defeated, and then the three-headed Serpent-Gorynych. And when the bastards, the fascists attacked Holy Russia, the granite-breaker Samson attacked the Panther armored vehicle with a spear. The tank broke the spear, fell with all its armor on the granite-breaker, and the granite-breaker tore the track with his bare hands, took a knife from the boot and removed the armor and a piece of meat from the tank. And another tank was running away from Samson. But Samson caught up and also took off the skin. And then he went out with a spear on an armored train and defeated him. And then on the battleship and drowned him. And when he was a little atheistic boy Samsosh, he dived into the water and drowned a great white shark, a whale and a sperm whale. Samsos without a weapon filled up 2 one and a half ton bears and wild Russian monkeys-builders without any measuring instruments built the most beautiful city. One-sided fantasy.